Tag: Friday Prayers

I have a son who is a university student; he has been in prison for five years. He is in prison one hundred kilometers from where we live. My question is: is it permissible for prisoners to shorten their prayers and put them together, especially since they are not allowed to pray Jumu`ah?

MOSCOW – About 100 Muslims were shocked after dozens of masked men in uniforms filled out a mosque in the town of Mytishchi north of Moscow, detaining them after finishing Friday prayers. “We were loaded into buses and unloaded like potato sacks,” Magomed Khabibirov was cited as saying by the Mediazona news website, The Moscow …

Wa `alaykum as-Salamu wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh. In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful. All praise and thanks are due to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon His Messenger. In this fatwa: Muslim scholars agree that the Friday Prayer can be performed in the same mosque twice if there is a need. In …

In the aftermath of the election and in response to the rising hate crimes in the US against Muslims, national Christian and Jewish leaders will join their Muslim colleagues at Masjid Muhammad (1519 4th Street NW, Washington DC) on Friday, November 18, 2016 for the daily Muslim prayer service. Before prayers, the national faith leaders will …